1899. Venice. Venezia.

If you like my work, please consider helping me with the electricity bill: Upscale 4k: Videoenhance – Topaz Labs 50 FPS: Dain-app Colorization: DeOldify Neural Network 1899 panorama of Venice. Bridge of sighs. The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Venetian: Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contino, whose uncle Antonio da Ponte designed the Rialto Bridge, and it was built in 1600. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge’s English name was bequeathed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian “Ponte dei sospiri“, from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at t